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DOMESTIC PERSONAL TECHNOLOGIES
A Themed issue of Personal technologies (ISSN 0949-2054, Springer Verlag)
http://www.csm.uwe.ac.uk/faculty/cpim/PeTe.html
EDITOR
Richard Harper, University of Surrey
Deadline: 31 August 1999
The powerful impact of computing in the home is becoming increasingly
apparent. With penetration rates of personal computing into the home
as high as 60% in some countries, along with the increasing rollout
of high-bandwidth cable networks capable of supporting data
transmission and the increasing power/price ratio of computers and
peripherals, computer technology is becoming a ubiquitous part of
domestic surroundings. Although many researchers have studies
computing in the home, it has largely been from the perspective of
the use of workplace technologies such as email, internet or document
creation. And, although there have been numerous research programmes
investigating ubiquitous or pervasive computing, there has been
little in the way of a systematic drawing together of the concept of
'domestic computing' and its implications. Nor has there been any
attempt to integrate studies of non computational technologies in the
domestic environment. These technologies are themselves going through
radical change as a result of the convergence of computational,
mobile and other technologies. This convergence is having a major
impact upon their role. For example, over 60% of all communication to
the home is still undertaken by paper based mail. Yet new
technologies are radically altering the nature of that mail both in
terms of what it contains and who it is addressed to (e.g. the
emergence of so-called personalised direct marketing). Moreover, the
impact of interactive communications medium into the home, especially
interactive tele-visual services, has not generated the advertising
and organisational communications opportunities expected. The result
is that the exact nature of the competition between old and new
technologies in the home is far from clear or well understood.
CONTRIBUTIONS
This issue of Personal Technologies aims to draw together
contributions which will go some way to predicting the future of
technology in the home with more accuracy than analogies to previous
technologies allow. Questions which contributions to the issue might
address include:
*the relationship of ubiquitous technologies within the home and
communication technologies in the wider environment
*computationally-enhanced real-world objects in the domestic environment
*future information and communication services that will exploit the
developing domestic computing infrastructure
*the perceived value of communication and computing services in the home
*models for detailed analysis of existing and new services and systems
*supporting the variety of tasks which comprise domestic environments
through technologies and services
*interfaces for domestic environments
*effects on larger social institutions
In line with the multidisciplinary nature of Personal Technologies,
contributions can originate from computing, social and human
sciences, engineering, or marketing, and can take the form of
empirical studies, position papers, theoretical analyses or
discussions of deployed systems.
DEADLINE
The deadline for contributions is 30 AUGUST, 1999. Contributions will
be rapidly peer-reviewed by an international panel and will be
published in volume 3 (1999) of Personal Technologies.
FORMAT
Contributions should follow the submission guidelines on the Personal
technologies web site.Electronic submissions are preferred and should
be mailed to <[log in to unmask]>
CONTACT
For advice on a submission, please contact
Richard Harper <[log in to unmask]>
Peter Thomas, editor-in-chief, <[log in to unmask]>
If you intend to provide a contribution, please make contact as soon as
possible.
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